Saturday 18th & Sunday 19th July 2026

[refitman]

Morning all.

[refitman]

I see Rowling is taking the criticism of her attacking Amnesty well

[refitman]

Ok, time to hold my hands up. I may have been wrong about Burnham - it's possible he'll actually be worse than Starmer.

[gilsey]

Totally agree re Mahmood as CX, really awful.

Not so sure about the drilling, it's pretty insignificant re climate change and he might have just thought it was one fight he didn't need to pick.

[refitman]

For a start, the drilling for oil is against Labour's 'pledges' at the last election (not that they're worth the paper they're printed on) and then there's the fact that there's little to no oil left there - a point Labour were screaming at the last election, when the Tories kept bringing it up.

[refitman]

[refitman]

I see Truss still has that winning touch.

[Frog222]

I see Truss still has that winning touch.

[Frog222]

CPAC GB was similarly confused on immigration. Speaker after speaker denounced mass migration, asylum, small boats, and immigration of all sorts – but on the first day, the hall only managed to reach even halfway full thanks to around 50 or 60 activists who had travelled over to the event from Romania.

The peak confusion, though, must surely have been Liz Truss’s embrace of Mateea Petrescu as the chair of her new Atlantic Strategy Institute. After an event in which speakers endlessly condemned “Muslim grooming gangs”, Truss welcomed Petrescu – the Tate brothers’ longtime spokeswoman – to the stage.

Andrew Tate claimed to have converted to Islam in 2022, which would make him the literal ringleader of an alleged “Muslim grooming gang”. It is not clear whether Truss was unaware of the association, or whether some grooming gangs are more acceptable than others.

CPAC GB may have had its element of confusion, and for many of its panels the sparse audience was battling boredom, especially during a long run of cryptocurrency and gold-hoarding panels moderated by sponsorship partners on the second day – but neither of these made it any less dangerous.

[Frog222]

[Frog222]

April is on 'holiday' away from the Kill Zone in Kramatorsk, doing another fundraiser for her much-loved Alcatraz Battalion **--



** They are released prisoners who have volunteered to serve .

I learned a lot about autism from her